15110GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Puerto Rico girds for possible hurricane as Tropical Storm Fiona nears Tropical Storm Fiona is heading for Puerto Rico and forecasters are warning it likely will grow into a hurricane before hitting on Sunday with extremely heavy rains. They say the level of rain expected has the potential to cause landslides, severe flooding and power outages.https://www.ksl.com/article/50477927/puerto-rico-girds-for-possible-hurricane-as-tropical-storm-fiona-nearsThis satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Fiona in the Caribbean on Saturday. Fiona threatened to dump up to 16 inches of rain in parts of Puerto Rico on Saturday as forecasters placed the U.S. territory under a hurricane watch and people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages.2022-09-18T19:52+0200ksl-a053c63f296eab77ed03be31ed3f28a620220918195200Anxiety is high in Puerto Rico as Fiona closes in and threatens historic rainfallhttps://www.newsbreak.com/news/2751350023638/anxiety-is-high-in-puerto-rico-as-fiona-closes-in-and-threatens-historic-rainfallHAVANA — Puerto Ricans braced for severe wind and extreme rain as Tropical Storm Fiona bore down amid expectations it would grow into a hurricane before striking the U.S. territory's southern coast Sunday afternoon. Forecasters said "historic" levels of rain were expected to produce landslides and....2022-09-18T16:12+0200newsbreak-USA-97c2de552923137ed9b711d6fc44a0de20220918161200Puerto Rico under hurricane warning as tropical storm Fiona nearshttps://www.newsbreak.com/news/2749692137002/puerto-rico-under-hurricane-warning-as-tropical-storm-fiona-nearsThis image provided by Noaa shows Tropical Storm Fiona in the Caribbean on Saturday. Tropical Storm Fiona was expected to become a hurricane as it neared Puerto Rico on Saturday, threatening to dump up to 20 inches (51cm) of rain as people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages.2022-09-18T14:39+0200newsbreak-USA-86151acd0fc94f40f962c1f1fc1cf63320220918143900Puerto Rico under hurricane watch as TS Fiona approacheshttps://uk.news.yahoo.com/puerto-rico-under-hurricane-watch-130952194.htmlTropical Storm Fiona threatened to dump up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of rain in parts of Puerto Rico on Saturday as forecasters placed the U.S. territory under a hurricane watch and people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. The storm was located 145 miles (230 kilometers) southeast of St.2022-09-18T13:55+0200news-yahoo-uk-f23089bf79b27bbae5305c92f8deb70c20220918135500